Letters from the corrugated castle
Subtitle: a novel of gold rush California, 1850-1852
By: Joan W. Blos
Edition: 1st Aladdin paperbacks ed.
Publisher: Aladdin Paperbacks
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 310
ISBN-13: 9780689870781
Copyright date: 2007
Subjects: Frontier and pioneer life; Juvenile fiction; Mothers and daughters; Gold mines and mining; Mexican Americans; History; Fiction; Letters; California Gold rush; Historical fiction
Description: A series of letters and newspaper articles reveals life in California in the 1850s, especially for thirteen-year-old Eldora, who was raised in Massachusetts as an orphan only to meet her influential mother in San Francisco, and Luke, who hopes to find a fortune in gold.
Notes: 1000 Lexile.

Ages 10-14.

John and Patricia Beatty Award winner, 2008.